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Dear Readers METS is dedicated to empowering the district leadership, finding solutions for medical records, tracking HIV clients on treatment and providing technical assistance to ensure continued data quality improvements in the Ugandan health care. You will be interested in reading this summarized version of our selected achievements in the above mentioned period. METS summaryRead more

Adjumani Amuria Arua Bukedea Bukomansimbi Buliisa Bunyangabu Hoima Kabarole Kaberamaido Kagadi Kakumiro Kamwenge Kasese Katakwi Kibaale Kiboga Koboko Kumi Kyankwanzi Kyegegwa Kyenjojo Kyotera Luwero Lwengo Lyantonde Maracha Masaka Masindi Mityana Moyo Mpigi Mubende Nakasongola Nebbi Ngora Ntoroko Pakwach Zombo Rakai Sembabule Serere Soroti Wakiso    Read more

Uganda participated in the first ever regional face to face Laboratory Community Of Practice (LabCoP) meeting for scale up of viral load services in Africa LabCoP is convened by ASLM, with the aim of strengthening and transforming laboratory services on the African continent, using the scale up of Viral load monitoring, as a case. LabCoPRead more

METS organized a five-day training (20-24 August 2018) on the PrEP Tracker with the main aim of improving the quality of data submitted through the tracker across the CDC PrEP implementing health facilities. Pre-exposure Prophylaxis (PrEP) is when people at very high risk for HIV take medication daily to lower their chances of getting infected.Read more

 14THAUGUST 2018 Imperial Royale Hotel Kampala   TB continues to cause morbidity and mortality in Uganda, a 2014/15 survey put the national prevalence at 253/100,000 people and it was estimated that there were 87,000 new cases of TB annually which is much higher than those in HIV at an estimate of 60,000 per year. ThereRead more

METS, with support from CDC Uganda, embarked on developing a Unique Identifier that could be used in the Uganda Electronic Medical Records (UgandaEMR). Unique identifiers are numeric or alphanumeric codes that support identification of individuals when accessing a variety of health services. The purpose of assigning a Unique Identifier (UI) is to ensure that eachRead more

METS conducted on-site mentorships and quality assessments for 72 CDC-supported VMMC sites during the period of 25thJune to 6thJuly 2018. The mentorships were jointly conducted with the Implementing Partners and Ministry of Health (MoH). The selected 72 VMMC sites are high volume, based on the number of circumcisions performed in the last quarter. The mentorshipRead more

Nine (9) districts are currently implementing a Viral Load (VL) Quality Improvement (QI) collaborative that is aimed at improving uptake of VL monitoring for HIV infected individuals on ART. A total of 39 health facilities across these 9 districts, with the lowest VL coverage, have instituted low cost changes/methods for improving uptake of VL monitoring.Read more

Makerere University School of Public Health through the METS program is implementing a pilot of HIV Case Based Surveillance. During this implementation a number of interventions have been implemented. Key among these are Viral load monitoring of clients on ART, roll out of EID & UgandaEMR in all facilities providing ART and rolling out ofRead more

The Real-Time ARV Stock Status (RASS) System is a dashboard aimed at providing real-time intelligent data on ARV and Rapid Test Kit supplies (HIV commodities) while integrating it with data from other Health Information Systems (Patient numbers on ART, orders and distributions) for enhanced decision making to key stakeholders (Ministry of Health, District Health Teams,Read more

In 2015, PEPFAR in partnership with the Ministry of Health, piloted the DREAMS program. DREAMS focused on HIV negative girls that were DeterminedResilient Empowered AIDS Free and Mentored and Safe. The program’s overall aim was to reduce HIV infections among adolescent girls and young women (AGYW). This was informed by the disproportionate effects of theRead more

“The METS Program is well on track because we need quality data, we cannot invest in programs with bad data because this would be discouraging to our funders,” Dr. Jennifer Galbraith from CDC. This was during the official dissemination of the Governance, Leadership and Management (GLM) and the Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) Fellowship Programs. TheRead more

Status and Strategies for the Utilization of the Health Management Information System (HMIS) in Uganda – A Study Conducted by METS Introduction Health Management Information System (HMIS) involves the collection, processing, storage, retrieval and dissemination of health information for decision-making. There is a strong debate about the antecedents of utilisation of HMIS information generated atRead more

In an effort to continuously improve quality of health service delivery and outcomes across Uganda, the Ministry of Health (MoH) organised the 4th Annual National Health Care Quality Improvement (QI) Conference at the Kampala Serena Conference Centre on 29-31 August 2017. This was achieved with major support from PEPFAR through implementing partners including Makerere UniversityRead more

Adjumani Amuria Arua Bukedea Bukomansimbi Buliisa Bundibugyo Bunyangabu Butambala Gomba Hoima Kabarole Kaberamaido Kagadi Kakumiro Kalangala Kamwenge Kasese Katakwi Kampala Kibaale Kiboga Kiryandongo Koboko Kumi Kyankwanzi Kyegegwa Kyenjojo Kyotera Luwero Lwengo Lyantonde Maracha Masaka Masindi Mityana Mpigi Mubende Nakaseke Nakasongola Nebbi Ngora Ntoroko Pakwach Rakai Sembabule Serere Soroti Wakiso Yumbe Zombo    Read more